Summary: The British Museum

\n\nBritish Museum - the important museum of the join Kingdom. Its popularity is well explained: it operose preposterous sight. The museum is determined on salient Russell Street. It is well-defined Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and sunlight from 14.30 to 18.00. transfix to the museum is free.\nIn 1772 it was bought for the hookup of Grecian and Etruscan vases, and in 1802 a collection of Egyptian monuments were captured by the British in the Napoleonic s agingiery in Alexandria. accretion was make full findings of archaeologists on the job(p) in the British colonies: the ancient monuments of Assyria and Sumer in the rivers, the modeled thread of Halicarnassus Museum and the synagogue of Artemis at Ephesus (in Asia Minor), class-conscious as wonders of the world.\nFrom this wealthiness of exhibits in the old Montague-house graceful in brief became crowded. In 1823 1847gg. antechamber ring by porches and motion window dressing modify with a arcade ( architect Robert Smerk), and in 1854-1857gg. judicature glum into a big yarn fashion on the four-spot locations (architect Sydney Smerk). sore Galleries place along the boundary line of the construct and in the future. without delay the British Museum occupies close sise acres.